Improvement in cultivators



'T. MURPHEY.

Cultivator.

Patented Feb. 14. 1860.

I Witnesses:

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS MURPHEY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN CULTIVATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 27,144, dated February 14, 1860.

To all 'lthOM it may concern:

Be it known that I, THOMAS MURPHEY, of Cincinnati, Hamilton county, Chio,'have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Convertible Cultivators; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, making part of this specification, and in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of the frame, showing the fixed hinged sockets. It is used, as represented in this figure, as a scoring-plow. Fig. 2 represents the implement with adj ustable mold-boards attached, as used in billing. Fig. 3 is a representation of the implement as a weeder or cultivatorfthe adjustable cultivator-frames being attached, as shown.

A is the beam, provided with a clevis, B, by which it is drawn. It is mortised to the standard C, and both have connection with the bracing-standard D, to which the handles E E are connected, as shown.

F is a common shovel-plowshare, connected to the standard C and braced to beam A by G.

H H are staples through which the adjusting-rods of the mold-boards and cultivatorframes respectively pass for fastenin I are the permanent hinge-sockets, to which the mold-boards K K are connected by means of pins L.

M are fixed sockets in which the adjustable cultivator-frames N N work, as shown.

0 O are the cultivator-blades.

a a are the rods by which the mold-boards are adjusted. sition, by nuts on each side of the staple H.

b b are rods by which the cultivator-frames are adjusted in the staples H in a similar manner to those of the mold-boards.

I claim as new and of my invention herein and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The described arran gementof the plow-t'ra me A C D E F, detachable mold-boards K, and detachable cultivator-frames N O, the whole being constructed and operating in lhecnanner and for the several purposes set forth.

In testimony of which invention I hereunto set my hand.

TBOS. MURPHEY.

Witnesses:

GEo. H. KNIGHT, FRANCIS MILLWARD.

They are secured, when in po- 

